24-year-old woman with severe cat allergy is forced to adopt her boyfriend's mother's cat after the mother warns she would "get rid of" the cat, now runs away from the boyfriend while he's at work to save the feline from him too

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Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor
Apr 29, 2025 10:00 AM EDT

We tell pretty much everyone that we know that they should adopt a cat. Because cats are awesome. Because cats bring joy and calmness into their households. Because in some cultures, it's believed that if a cat likes a house, then the house will treat its owners nicely. Pretty much everyone, but not actually everyone. Because as much as we support adopting cats and having cats in your home, we do fully understand that some people have no business being cat owners, and this story has two of them. 

You would think that this story would have three of these people, considering that the girlfriend is severely allergic to cats, but no, she is the best thing that has happened to this cat. The cat's original owner (the mom in this story) was terrible and neglectful, and turns out that her son (the boyfriend who adopted the cat with his girlfriend) is just as terrible - to the cat and to his now ex. Taking the cat, however slyly she might have done it, was the best thing that she could have done. 

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    "[Am I wrong] for leaving my boyfriend and taking the cat with me?"

    I left while he was at work in order to safely take our cat with me.
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    First time poster and using a burner account to feel safer about posting. As the title states, I (24F) left my SO (27M) while he was at work in order to safely take our cat with me.
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    My now ex BF, we will call him Nathan, and I dated for a little over a year. During this time, we moved into an apartment together and I quickly realized just how lazy he was. He never seemed to be able to pick up his portion of the rent and spent all of his free time playing video games.
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    Now, I love playing video games too, and that was not my problem. My problem was how lazy he was and how he did not contribute to anything around the house, both physically and financially. When we moved into the apartment, his mother got evicted and could not have cats where her new apartment was.
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    She said if we did not take her cat, we will call her Coral, she would have to bring her to the humane society (the cat was around 9m old). I am severely allergic and did not want Coral, but how am I supposed to say no when you basically leave me no choice by saying you will have to get rid of her?
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    So, we take her. Well, she instantly became my little bestie and I learned to just take medicine and stay on top of laundry to minimize my allergies to my best abilities.
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    Now Nathan was so mean to Coral and would yell and kick/throw her. She was just a kitten and is the biggest snuggle bug and he was not. He tried to lock her out of our bedroom at night but she just wanted to lay with us and this made him so angry every night because she would scratch at the door.
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    Nathan had a tendency to be a hot head and spoke about females in a very derogatory manner which irked me because, hello, I am a female. I say this because the reason I left the way I did was because I feared he would get angry and either throw things, break my $600 tv or put his hands on me.
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    Anyways, one night I decide I am done and I tell him I want to break up and he gets angry and tells me I am not taking Coral and I immediately start crying. So now he is pred even more because I am crying over losing Coral more than him.
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    We then agree to work on things, or so he thought. The next month consisted of me terminating my portion of the lease with the apartment complex, and making sure I had help moving my stuff out.
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    Here is where I may be in the wrong a little bit... Coral had never seen a vet. We had only had her about 4 months when I decided to leave the relationship and so I made her a vet appointment listing me as her owner, of course.
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    A week after her appointment is when I moved all of my stuff out while he was at work and sent him a texting basically stating he was coming home to an empty apartment. He flipped out and his mother and sister started sending me texts about beating me up and taking the cat back and a whole bunch of things which I am sure yall can use your imagination.
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    I would like to note that when we first agreed to take Coral, I made it very clear that she would be our cat now and if she found a place in the future that accepts cats that she would still be ours, and she agreed and had no issue with that.
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    There are countless other things that happened over the year we dated, but I am just curious if I was wrong for leaving the way I did since it was kind of premeditated. So, AITA???
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  • There is not even a discussion here. Of course what you did was okay. For all you know, you might have saved the cat's life, and maybe yours as well. A man that you are scared of is not a man to live with. You taking the cat with you, despite the allergies and all the risks that brings, just reinforces that you are a good person. 

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    Turbulent-Muffin6142 NTA. And have the vet microchip her with you as the owner to protect you legally.
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    Classic-Cap6861 OP This is why I brought her to the vet before I left to kind of have something documented that shows I am the owner (she also needed to go, in general) I was just not sure if that was enough but I will definitely talk to her vet about getting a microchip, thank you for your advice!
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  • We are glad to see that the people in the comments agree with us - all of them. If there was any contemplation in this case, we would have lost all faith in humanity. 

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    CloverRidge-XO Definitely NTA. TThe care and wellbeing of an animal is nnot something to take lightly, and given your description, it's pretty clear that he wasn't providing a supportive, safe environment for Coral.
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    Moreover, it seems like you were trying to escape a potentially ab ive situation, and the fact that you were considerate enough to ensure that Coral wouldn't be left in it as well only speaks volumes about your compassion and humanity. Remember, there is no correct way to leave an unhealthy relationship, and you absolutely did the right thing in prioritizing your own safety (and Coral's) in the way you did. Stay strong and hold onto that courage.
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    Classic-Cap6861 OP Thank you for this comment, I did not realize how bad the relationship was until I started talking about it honestly with my best friend and that is when it kind of hit me and writing this and seeing the comments is only supporting what I already knew and just did not want to face
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